As Congress continues to navigate funding for the Department of Homeland Security, the core principles of the SAVE America Act are coming to the forefront. Due to the Democratic Party’s resistance, there are discussions about incorporating some of these provisions into a future reconciliation package, which will also provide funding for ICE and Border Patrol. While frontline officers are currently receiving their pay, civilian support staff are unfortunately left without compensation at this time.
The debate surrounding voter ID laws seems to have reached a consensus: support for these laws is widespread. A Harvard poll shows that the Save Act boasts a commendable 71 percent approval rating. When it comes to voter ID specifically, approval ratings are similarly high across various demographics, a trend that has persisted since the Obama administration. Despite this, some Democrats have branded it as “Jim Crow 2.0.” In North Carolina, however, years of legal battles over the state’s voter ID law have reached a conclusion that doesn’t favor the Democrats. Notably, this ruling was issued by a judge appointed by Barack Obama:
In another major win for voter ID laws, Loretta Biggs, an Obama appointee, reversed her prior ruling and found the North Carolina law to be constitutional. Despite Democratic claims of these laws being Jim Crow 2.0, they have been uniformly upheld. https://t.co/kyf3fG5GrP
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) March 27, 2026
A federal judge has upheld North Carolina’s voter identification law nearly two years after holding a trial in a lawsuit challenging the ID requirement. The same judge had blocked the law from taking effect for the 2020 election cycle.
Her initial ruling against voter ID helped delay implementation of the ID law until 2023.
State lawmakers approved the ID law in 2018 after voters approved a state constitutional amendment enshrining voter ID in North Carolina’s governing document.
“Finally. After seven years, we can put to rest any doubt that our state’s Voter I.D. law is constitutional,” state Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said in a prepared statement Thursday. “This is a monumental win for the citizens of North Carolina and election integrity efforts.”
“[It is important that this Court begins by recognizing what this case is, and what it is not,” US District Judge Loretta Biggs in her 134-page order Thursday. “This case is not about whether North Carolina law will require that voters show photo identification when they go to the polls. That question was settled on November 6, 2018, when approximately 55% of North Carolina’s registered voters enshrined a photo voter identification requirement in the State Constitution.”
That’s it. Game over, y’all.
Democrats have fought this issue in the court of public opinion, but they have lost. Now, the real courts have ruled and established a precedent that these laws are constitutional. Good luck trying to continue blocking a requirement that, overall, more than 80 percent of Americans have consistently supported.
